AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs ATI Radeon X1600 PRO AGP

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6850

ATI Radeon X1600 PRO AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1600 PRO AGP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6850 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 12.48GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1600 PRO AGP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (41W vs 127W)

Score

Radeon HD 6850

VS

Radeon X1600 PRO AGP

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Oct 2007

Northern Islands

Generation

Radeon R500 AGP

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

390 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.48GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

-

48

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

4

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

24.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.000 GPixel/s

37.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.000 GTexel/s

-

1488 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

Board Design

127W

TDP

41W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

Floppy

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

RV530

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

RV530 PRO (215CADAKA24FG)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

90 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.157 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

150 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.4

OpenGL

2.1

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

3.0

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